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East Surrey FHS Virtual Fair is on Sat 25 Jan with morning and afternoon sessions (GMT). It is free with a good range of societies participating and we will be there in a GENUKI room. So if you want to see some of us or have any questions please go to the link, sign up for the zoom meeting and join us.
King's Marsh
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"KINGSMARSH, a liberty (extra-parochial), in the higher division of the hundred of BROXTON, county palatine of CHESTER, 5½ miles (N. W.) from Malpas, containing 46 inhabitants." [From Samuel Lewis A Topographical Dictionary of England (1831) ©Mel Lockie]
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- King's Marsh was an extra-parochial place in Broxton hundred (SJ 4254), which became a civil parish in 1858.
- It included the hamlet of Rowley Hill.
- The population was 40 in 1801, 91 in 1851, 65 in 1901, 56 in 1951, and 30 in 2001.
- In 2015 the civil parish was abolished and incorporated into Farndon.
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- Great Boughton (1837-69)
- Chester (1871-1937)
- West Cheshire (1937-74)
- Chester & Ellesmere Port (1974-98)
- Cheshire West (1998-2007)
- Cheshire (2007-09)
- Cheshire West & Chester (2009-15)
- Broxton (1828-1974)
- Chester (1974-2001)
- Chester, Ellesmere Port & Neston (2001-12)
- West Cheshire (2012-15)
- Ask for a calculation of the distance from King's Marsh to another place.
- 1888 March 24 — Lost a detached part of King's Marsh (31 acres, pop. 0 in 1891).
- 2015 April 1 — Abolished and incorporated into Farndon.
You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SJ430547 (Lat/Lon: 53.086494, -2.851939), King's Marsh which are provided by:
- OpenStreetMap
- Google Maps
- StreetMap (Current Ordnance Survey maps)
- Bing (was Multimap)
- Old Maps Online
- National Library of Scotland (Old Ordnance Survey maps)
- Vision of Britain (Click "Historical units & statistics" for administrative areas.)
- English Jurisdictions in 1851 (Unfortunately the LDS have removed the facility to enable us to specify a starting location, you will need to search yourself on their map.)
- Magic (Geographic information) (Click + on map if it doesn't show)
- GeoHack (Links to on-line maps and location specific services.)
- All places within the same township/parish shown on an Openstreetmap map.
- Nearby townships/parishes shown on an Openstreetmap map.
- Nearby places shown on an Openstreetmap map.
- Tarvin Rural Sanitary District (1875-94)
- Tarvin Rural District (1894-1974)
- Chester (1974-2009)
- Cheshire West & Chester (2009-15)